Fresno Sigma Chi Endowment Awards $28,000 to Active Chapter Brothers

Mike Patton (63-S), Fresno Sigma Chi Endowment President, announced that the Endowment Board has awarded 14 scholarships of $2,000 each to undergraduate members of the fraternity for the fall 2000/spring 2021 school year. The scholarships are split into two payments, September 2020 and January 2021. Monies for the scholarships are from earnings from endowments held by the Fresno State Alumni Association and the Sigma Chi Foundation (Headquarters).

Fresno Sigma Chi alumni began creating the endowments and making donations in 1975 to recognize and reward academic excellence, outstanding chapter leadership and outstanding brotherhood contributions.

The undergraduate brothers who accepted the scholarships are Jordan Ayerza (17-F), Sham Batth (17-F), Cole Blagen (17-F), Brayden Bronson (17-F), Diego Fernandez (18-F), Tyler Gardner (20-S), Taj Gill (20-S), Raj Johal (20-S), Luke Karagozian (20-S), Cody Koch (20-S), Matthew Morales (20-S), Gio Primavera (17-F), Lane Pulliam (20-S), Christian Reta (18-F), Gabe Rodriguez (20-S), McKay Romero (18-F), Nick Sheehan (20-S) and Bryson Stephens (20-S).

The scholarship pool consists of those brothers who successfully apply on the Fresno State scholarship portal, and who are living in the Chapter House during the 2020/2021 school year. The purpose of the scholarships is to offset part of the cost of tuition, books, fees, supplies and equipment required to attend Fresno State. The 2020 undergraduate tuition and fees are now $6,591 for California residents, and the estimated annual cost for books and supplies is $1,918.

In addition, undergraduate brothers Nolan Long (20-S) and Christian Reta (18-F), both Smittcamp Scholars, each received a $1,500 scholarship, and Luke Karagozian (20-S) received $3,000 from the Dante Simi (58-F) Endowment. All three Simi recipients are 4.0 students.

Past Epsilon Eta Consul and Significant Sig Dante Simi

The Fresno Sigma Chi endowments totaled $821,467 on January 1, 2020 allowing Epsilon Eta to fund more scholarships than almost every Sigma Chi chapter in North America.